Since 1966 – International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts – Italian Pugwash Group

Detailed Program

Thursday 10 August 2000

BUILDING AND DROPPING THE BOMB

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Carlo Schaerf
Nuclear Physics in the 20’s and the 30’s
Gert Harigel

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Atomic Scientists after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ruth Adams and Stephen Schwartz

16:30 – 18:00   Session 3  Chair: Mirco Elena
US Proposals and Options for a Nuclear Future
Victor Gilinsky

16:30 – 18:00   Session 4
The Cold War Divide
David Carlton

Friday 11 August 2000

NUCLEAR WEAPONS – REACTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Gert Harigel
Reactions from the Soviet Union and Japan
S. Kapitza and M. Konuma

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
The H Bomb – Decision in the USSR and the US
David Holloway

16:00 – 17:30   Session 3
Factors of Stabilization and De-stabilization in the Arms Race
Vadim Simonenko

18:00         Bus Departure for Vineyard and dinner

Saturday 12 August 2000

THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE I

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Natalie Goldring
What Nuclear Weapons do to People, Buildings, Cities, Climate and Military Targets
Michael May

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Nuclear Weapons Development in China
Chen Xueyin

The Bomb in Israel
Avner Cohen

16:30 – 18:00   Session 3  Chair: Ron Bee
Political Strategies and Military Doctrines
Bruce Blair

18:15 – 19:45   Session 4
NATO and Warsaw Pact – Military Strategies
Martin Butcher and Evgeny Bazhanov

21:00         Films available for viewing

Sunday 13 August 2000

VOICES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Sandra Ionno
World Conferences of Scientists on World Affairs
Ruth Adams and George Rathjens

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Citizen Voices on Nuclear Weapons
Martin Butcher

15:00         Departure to Verona for the Opera “Nabucco”

Monday 14 August 2000

THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE II

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Victor Gilinsky
Why and Where Proliferation
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Tariq Rauf (substitute for Avner Cohen)

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Comments on Proliferation
Joelien Pretorius, Arpit Rajan and Sarahh Bokhari

16:30 – 18:00   Session 3  Chair: Takao Takahara
Choreography of Arms Control Negotiations
Natalie Goldring and Ronald Bee

18:15 – 19:45   Session 4
Comments
Vladimir Petrovsky, Tariq Rauf and Bruce Larkin

21:00         Films available for viewing

Tuesday 15 August 2000

THE POST COLD WAR DECADE

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Bruce Larkin
Overcoming Cold War Secrecy
Steven Aftergood

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Five Trillion and Still Counting
Stephen Schwartz

16:30 – 18:00   Session 3  Chair: Susan Willet
Transitions and Tensions in Greater Europe
David Carlton, Sergey Kapitza and David Holloway

18:15 – 19:45   Session 4
The Restructuring of Global Institutions
Kennette Benedict

21:15 – 22:15   Special Seminar
Global Population Dynamics and the Future of Humankind
Sergey Kapitza

Wednesday 16 August 2000

MEASURES TO REDUCE THE THREAT OF A NUCLEAR WAR

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Kennette Benedict
Overview
George Rathjens

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2
Ballistic Missile Defenses, Deep Cuts, De-Altering and other Options
Eugeny Bazhanov, Alex de Volpi, Michael May

16:30 – 18:00   Session 3  Chair: Clayton Nall
Why not Abolition? Guidelines for Negotiations
Natalie Goldring, Chen Xueyin and Stephen Schwartz

18:15 – 19:45   Session 4
Values of a War-Free World
Giancarlo Tenaglia

Thursday 17 August 2000

PERSPECTIVES FOR THE 21st CENTURY

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Giancarlo Tenaglia
Scientists in the Nuclear Age
Joseph Rotblat

11:00 – 12:30   Session 2  Chair: Sandra Ionno Butcher
Participant Session
A Nuclear-Weapons-Free World
Speakers: Rian Lieth, Kurt Laforce
Discussants: Joelien Pretorius, Clayton Nall

14:30 – 16:00   Session 3  Chair: SANDRA Ionno Butcher
Participant Session
A Less-Vulnerable World
Speakers: Melissa Carey, Gordon Bosanac
Discussants: Joseph Rotblat, Susan Veres, Hugo Estrella

16:00 – 16:30   Concluding Remarks
Ruth Adams, Carlo Schaerf